Legal Definition and Related Resources of Attempt
Meaning of Attempt
An endeavour or effort to commit a crime . Mere preparation for or the intention to commit the crime does not constitute attempt. The term indicates that the culprit had actually commenced the transaction which, if uninterrupted, would have proceeded to its completion, and when completed would have been an offense . See state v Stewart, 537 S. W.2d 579. In civil and matters other than criminal , the term indicates the endeavour to do an act that falls short of full execution .
Attempt Alternative Definition
In criminal law. An endeavor to accomplish a crime carried beyond mere preparation for it, but falling short of the ultimate design. 5 Cush. (Mass.) 367. The elements are (1) intent to commit a crime; (2) an affirmative act in pursuance of that intent, but falling short of the crime intended. 1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 510. Such act need not be “the last proximate act to the consummation of the crime in contemplation, but it is sufficient if it be an act apparently adapted to produce the result intended. It must be more than mere preparation.” 86 Va. 382.
Synonyms of Attempt
verb
- aim at
- assay
- be at work
- be in action
- bid for
- carry on
- conari
- do one’s best
- do the needful
- drive at
- employ oneself
- endeavor
- essay
- exert oneself
- go after
- go all out for
- intend
- labor for
- make a bid
- make a try
- make an effort at
- make the effort
- ply one’s task
- pursue
- put to
- strive
- take on
- temptare
- test
- try
- try hard
- try one’s best
- undertake
- use one’s best endeavors
- venture
- Associated Concepts: attempt to commit a crime
- attempt to defraud
- attempt to prove
- conspiracy
- failure of intended act
- preparatory acts
- renunciation FOREIGN PHRASES: Affectus punitur licet non sequatur effectus
- The intention is punished although the intended result does not follow
- Non officit conatus nisi sequatur effectus
- An attempt does not harm unless a consequence follows
- In maleficiis voluntas spectatur
- non exitus
- In criminal offenses
- the intention and not the result must be regarded
- Officit conatus si effectus sequatur
- The attempt becomes of consequence
- if the effect follows
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Further Reading
American Law Institute. Model Penal Code: Proposed Official Draft. Philadelphia: ALI, 1962.
. Model Penal Code: Tenative Draft No. 10. Philadelphia: ALI, 1960.
Ben-Shahar, Omri, and Harel, Alon. “The Economics of the Law of Criminal Attempts: A Victim-centered Perspective.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 145 (1996):
299-351.
Becker, Lawrence C. “Criminal Attempt and the Theory of the Law of Crimes.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 3 (1974): 262-294.
Comment. “Why Do Criminal Attempts Fail?: A New Defense.” Yale Law Journal 70 (1960): 160-169.
Davis, Michael. “Why Attempts Deserve Less Punishment than Complete Crimes.” L. & Phil. 5 (1986): 1-32.
Duff, R. Anthony. Criminal Attempts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Hall, Jerome. General Principles of Criminal Law. 2d ed. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960.
Kadish, Sanford H., and Schulhofer, Stephen. Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials. 6th ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
Meehan, Eugene R. “The Trying Problem of Criminal Attempt: Historical Perspectives.” University of British Columbia Law Review 14 (1979): 137-161.
Michael, Jerome, and Wechsler, Herbert. “A Rationale of the Law of Homicide.” Columbia Law Review 37 (1937): 701-761, 1261-1325.
Perkins, Rollin M. “Criminal Attempt and Related Problems.” UCLA Law Review 2 (1955): 319-355.
Rotenberg, Daniel L. “Withdrawal as a Defense to Relational Crimes.” Wisconsin Law Review (1962): 596-607.
Sayre, Francis B. “Criminal Attempts.” Harvard Law Review 41 (1928): 821-859.
Schulhofer, Stephen J. “Harm and Punishment: A Critique of Emphasis on the Results of Conduct in the Criminal Law.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 122 (1974): 1497-1607.
Shavell, Steven. “Deterrence and the Punishment of Attempts.” J. Leg. Stud. 19 (1990): 435-466.
Williams, Glanville. Criminal Law: The General Part. 2d ed. London: Stevens, 1961.
Attempt in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of attempt.
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police Officer
- Law Enforcement Agency
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- attempt in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- attempt in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
English Legal System: Attempt
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Attempt :
(in criminal law)
Any act that is more than merely preparatory to the intended commission of a crime; this act is itself a crime. For example, shooting at someone but missing could be attempted murder, but merely buying a revolver would not. One may be guilty of attempting to commit a crime that proves impossible to commit (e.g. attempted theft from an empty handbag).
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